Meet the casting agents of Happy New Year, Muse Dubai!

Ever wondered who’s responsible for hiring thousands of people behind the famous Bollywood blockbusters. In Dubai, Shahrukh Khan’s Happy New Year and Hrithik Roshan’s Bang Bang was shot and Muse Dubai played a vital role for these two movies. We interviewed Husam Khan from Muse Dubai to find out how they do it..

Hello Husam! Tell our viewers about Muse Dubai??

Muse Dubai, founded by Rehaab Daud and Roha Daud, is a talent management & PR agency which aims at scouting, training and representing fresh and vibrant array of talent.

Muse Dubai was the official casting agents for the movie Happy New Year, How did that happen??

Honestly, we are still trying to answer that question ourselves, but on a serious note, we met the Executive Producer of the movie through a production house called 7Media, Dubai. With a number of scheduled meetings, we proved our work ethics and capabilities as a team, and finally, managed to rope in the project.

What are your responsibilities as a casting agent??

Our main role as a casting agency is to scout, manage, train and represent talent for various projects.

For Happy New Year, we were not only the casting agency, but were also responsible for managing all the featured extras (roles with dialogues), and crowd extras on set. The movie revolves around the World Dance Championship, hence, we had to manage more than 1500 extras over the span of more than 22 days. We also flew in a world class dance troop from Korea. They are one of the main teams competing in the movie. Other than that, there were 10 other dance teams that were scouted from Dubai.

Casting for Happy New Year by Muse Dubai.

What is most challenging about what you do??

Handling different people with different wavelengths and personalities. Our job sounds very glamorous, but it’s a lot of hard work and requires us to be on our toes all the time.